Chapter 15

July is the summer vacation season, and Feihong Novel Network's already impressive traffic surged even more during this period. Xu Ying's novel's revenue doubled compared to the previous month.

And she did not disappoint the readers. The plot of "Back to High School" has been going smoothly and has progressed to the point where the female lead has been admitted to university and is balancing her career and love life.

In the article, Xu Jiayue studied hard and, in the second semester of her sophomore year, led her team of four to design a simple game based on her excellent professional skills.

During the competition, this little game caught the eye of a well-known company, which was willing to spend a lot of money to buy the game's source code. Xu Jiayue then sold it, which earned her her first pot of gold for starting her own business.

With this initial capital, Xu Jiayue was able to fully unleash her potential and, during her junior year of college, she gathered her former small private team to establish a game studio.

In her past life, her wealthy husband, Fu Yunshen, owned a technology company.

When the two were in a good relationship, she also worked at the company for a period of time, so she had a good understanding of both the company's operating model and the future development trend of the game industry.

She plans to dedicate her life to the gaming industry.

The rapid development of the internet will inevitably expand the popularity of the gaming industry. She must gain a foothold before the trend arrives. Of course, it would be even better if she could take away Fu Yunshen's money-making opportunities while developing her own career.

Fu Yun Shen cheated on her first, which led to her death. In this life, she only took away his path to wealth, which is already more than enough of her magnanimity towards him.

Xu Jiayue's grand ambition to start a game company has received strong support from her friends and boyfriend.

Li Mu even asked her if she had enough money, saying he did.

Li Mu is a second-generation rich kid. He has an older brother who is going to inherit the family business. Otherwise, his family would not have allowed him to study the unpopular history major so easily.

Xiaoxing, not wanting to be left behind, said that she had earned quite a bit of money as a part-time model over the past two years, and she was ready to transfer the money to Jiayue whenever she needed it.

With the strong support of these two, Xu Jiayue began to build the company's initial structure.

At this moment, her legend was just beginning.

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When Xu Ying started writing about the female protagonist's career development, her thoughts flowed smoothly. In half a day, she had two more chapters saved up on her computer. However, her hands never stopped typing.

Last month, she frequently added extra chapters, which has led to her drafts dwindling. She's starting to feel anxious. Of course, the more drafts she has, the better. She wants to take advantage of her current writing flow and save as many as possible.

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Song Yilian doesn't have a summer vacation.

As a graduate student, her summer vacation belongs to her supervisor. If her supervisor asks her to stay in the lab to do experiments, then she has to stay in the lab to do experiments.

Fortunately, her boss was a decent person. Although he kept making them work, he would at least pay them wages regularly as compensation.

Unlike the teacher in the next office, who is truly insane.

It is said that he gives students a labor fee every month. At first, she envied him for giving out labor fees so frequently. Later, she found out that the money never actually reached the students' pockets because the teacher would ask the students to transfer it to him privately.

!

Song Yilian was shocked when she heard this gossip. It was clearly money being borrowed from the students' glove account!

Unfortunately, his students, under pressure to graduate, had no choice but to comply.

Why.

Song Yilian shook off the random thoughts in her mind, took off her mask and gloves, and walked out of the laboratory.

Someone carrying experimental samples passed by the door and greeted her, "Finished the experiment?"

"Okay, back to the office to organize the data."

Song Yilian gave a casual reply, then took the USB drive with the copied data and returned to her workstation. However, she wanted to rest for a while before officially starting work.

Her way of resting was to open Feihong Novel Network and read the updates of "Back to High School Days".

On her last high-speed train home, she met two little girls. Their chattering conversation piqued her interest, opening a new world for her.

She had never found novels enjoyable before; she wasn't interested in any of those teen abortion novels or novels about wives running away with their babies.

Until she read February Sky's "Back to High School Days".

She wanted to say that this novel described her youthful high school life as she remembered it. There wasn't so much backstabbing, romance, or abortion in high school. Most high school students were just doing endless test papers!

This novel opened a new world for her. It turned out that she didn't dislike reading novels; it was just that those novels didn't hit the mark.

Now, taking three to five minutes to read the updates of "Back to High School" during her busy daily experiments has become her regular happy time.

There was a computer at her workstation, so Song Yilian opened the Feihong Novel Network on the computer and began to stare intently at the computer screen. Anyone who didn't know her would think she was studying some profound literature.

Xu Jiayue's studio currently only has three employees besides herself.

Two of these three were her classmates, and the other was a friend she met in a math competition who was directly admitted to Tsinghua or Peking University, so the two of them have now reunited on campus.

Upon learning that Xu Jiayue was going to start a game studio, she joined without hesitation, saying that she believed in Xu Jiayue's abilities.

At that moment, everyone in the office was busy programming with their heads down, completely unaware that it was already noon. It wasn't until there was a knock on the door that they looked up and saw Li Mu.

He was also carrying a thermos in his hand.

Everyone immediately understood and gave Xu Jiayue a teasing look.

"Jiayue, someone's delivering a love meal again!"

"Another day of envying young couples."

"We single folks won't bother you anymore, let's go, let's go, hurry up and leave!"

With that, the group of people grabbed their laptops and left the office.

Li Mu watched them leave with a smile, showing no embarrassment whatsoever.

He sat down next to Xu Jiayue with his things in hand, then took them out one by one and placed them on the table, saying gently, "Are you hungry? Eat."

"Ah, so gentle," Song Yilian, watching from outside the screen, couldn't help but exclaim.

She really likes men who can cook.

Because she herself can't cook and has absolutely no talent for cooking, this is not an exaggeration. She has tried to learn to cook more than once before, but even with the same ingredients, why does it always taste so bland in her hands?!

That's strange.

Her family knows she's not a good cook, and they never let her cook when she's at home.

When Mom is home, Mom cooks; when Mom isn't home, Dad cooks; when Dad isn't home, her younger sister cooks. If even her younger sister isn't home, then it's her turn to cook for herself. This shows how much people dislike her cooking skills.

She's come to terms with it now; if not, then not. Maybe her future partner will be.

Therefore, her first criterion for choosing a partner now is that she hopes her future partner can cook. Someone like Li Mu, who is good-looking, can cook, and is gentle and affectionate, is exactly what she wants.

One chapter was too short, so Song Yilian savored every word of the two's interactions, making sure she understood every single word before continuing to read.

Li Mu watched Xu Jiayue until she finished her meal before saying, "I may have to leave for a while."

"Why?"

While clearing away the dishes, Li Mu said, "Recently, a Qin Dynasty cliff carving was discovered in the Kunlun Mountains. It is suspected to be related to Qin Shi Huang. My supervisor is very excited and wants us to take a plane there tomorrow."

Xu Jiayue was shocked: "Really? I've never heard of this news before?"

Given Qin Shi Huang's popularity, if that stone inscription were truly related to him, it would have gone viral online long ago.

Li Mu explained, "It was just discovered and hasn't been announced yet. We'll definitely release an official news report once the archaeological team has thoroughly studied it."

Only his mentor, a leading figure in the fields of history and archaeology, was able to obtain this firsthand information and rush over to conduct research immediately.

Qin Shi Huang?

Song Yilian frowned slightly. It was another person she had never heard of or seen before, and judging from their appearance, they were quite an important figure. Otherwise, the male lead's mentor wouldn't have been so excited.

This is not the first time such a character has appeared in a novel.

Prior to this, Li Mu in the novel had jokingly described the friendship between Xu Jiayue and Xiao Xingxing as being like Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er in history books.

They appreciate each other and help each other.

The male lead was just saying it casually, but because she liked his character, she subconsciously remembered what he said.

On the other hand, she was also curious because Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er seemed to have a story to tell.

Unfortunately, after much anticipation, it turned out that the author had only mentioned it casually. Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er never appeared in the novel again, and there was no explanation whatsoever for their story.

Just as she was beginning to forget about the two of them, the male lead suddenly mentioned Qin Shi Huang again.

I must say, the name itself sounds pretty powerful...

Moreover, just by listening to the dialogue between the male and female protagonists, one can tell that Qin Shi Huang was no ordinary person; he seemed to be a well-known historical figure in the world of the novel.

Although she knew that these characters might have been created by the author for the sake of the plot, she couldn't help but be curious about what kind of historical stories they had in the author's writing.

Could you please make it more complete? She's getting a little anxious reading it.

Song Yilian originally planned to finish reading today's chapter and then properly organize the data, but because of Qin Shihuang's appearance, she couldn't resist opening the Taxue Forum.

She wanted to see if there was anyone who shared her interests.

She entered keywords and did a simple search.

As a result, when she did a casual search, she actually found a relevant post with a fairly high number of replies, although the post title didn't seem very friendly.

[In other words, are some authors so lacking in cultural knowledge that they fabricate history? [NEW]]

NO.1: Sofa.

NO2: I unlocked it in a second.

NO3: No big words.

NO4: ...There's nowhere else to hide, huh?

NO5: According to what you're saying, aren't all novels just made up? Why are you criticizing this one so harshly? Who's being unreasonable here?

NO6: Unique angle.

NO7: At this moment, a little girl gently broke it. I thought everyone would exaggerate how much effort Da Da put into it.

NO8: Me too. Actually, I really like it when the protagonist casually mentions things I don't know, especially their own history. It makes me feel like they are really living well in some parallel world.

NO9: Fellow traveler upstairs! And have you noticed that whenever the characters in the author's article mention history, they basically gloss over it in just a few words? I think that's particularly good. It gives people the feeling that this is our country's history, something that everyone knows, and there's no need to explain it in detail.

NO10: Absolutely right, sister, you've hit the nail on the head! I was wondering why I always felt so comfortable watching these storylines—now I know why! You're so authoritative!

NO11: It was all done effortlessly, you're amazing!

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NO39: I vomited.

NO40: Many comments are trying to defend the author.

NO41: Pfft, that's just basic stuff. Aren't you guys used to it yet? She only became famous through hype!

NO42: Hey everyone, we're all spending money, so please don't spoil her too much, okay? To put it bluntly, she's illiterate. She doesn't even know if she graduated from nine years of compulsory education. Otherwise, why would she go to such lengths to make up her own history?

NO43: Do you even have any logic in what you're saying?

NO44: Please, even making things up is much more difficult than directly copying history books, okay? Do you think making things up is easy?

NO45: I'm speechless. I opened the forum to find fellow fans, but all I found were posts criticizing them.

NO46: Hahaha, you can tell from the comments that most people really like it.

NO47: Ignore these trolls. I think they're addicted to bashing. The more you explain to them, the more they get worked up. They're so annoying, just ignore them.

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